Approved

Founding Engineer Wins an O-1A After Repeated H-1B Lottery Misses

Other | 6 months ago

O-1 Visa
From India
No RFE
O-1Visa

Case Summary.

Rami Lee helped an Indian software engineer remain in the U.S. with the O-1A visa after repeated misses in the H-1B lottery. The case was anchored by his critical role as a founding engineer at a venture-backed startup serving well-known enterprise clients, his judging of hackathons and peer review of conference papers and talks, and a deliberate build-up of industry press and scholarly writing.

Lead Attorney.

Rami Lee

Rami Lee

Immigration Lawyer Co-Counsel to Manifest Law

Rami Lee is an immigration attorney with a personal connection to the immigrant experience, having come to the U.S. from South Korea with her family in 1986. She is a co-counsel to Manifest Law—a new kind of immigration law firm. Based in Princeton, NJ, she represents clients nationwide in business, healthcare, and family immigration matters, with successful outcomes in hundreds of applications including PERM, H-1B, and NIW. Rami also advises companies on immigration compliance, bringing both compassion and diligence to every case she handles.

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